Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 13
The author has a keen eye for effect; a talent for description, detailed without becoming wearisome; a genuine love of Nature and sympathy with her varying moods; and a real refinement and elevation of feeling which enable him to deal with a _risqué_ situation with an absence of coarseness, not, unfortunately, to be always met with in a mediæval writer.
Who acts: author, real refinement, Nature · What happens: have, become, vary, enable, deal, not meet · To what, where: keen eye, wearisome, Nature, situation, feeling, coarseness
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (author, real refinement, Nature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eye | det |
| 5 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eye | amod |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 effect | case |
| 8 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eye | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 talent | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 talent | det |
| 11 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 description | case |
| 13 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talent | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 detailed | punct |
| 15 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 talent | conj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 becoming | mark |
| 17 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 detailed | advcl |
| 18 | wearisome | wearisome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 becoming | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 love | det |
| 21 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 love | amod |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Nature | case |
| 24 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 love | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sympathy | cc |
| 26 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 moods | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 moods | nmod:poss |
| 29 | varying | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 moods | amod |
| 30 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sympathy | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 enable | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 enable | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 refinement | det |
| 34 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 refinement | amod |
| 35 | refinement | refinement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 enable | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 elevation | cc |
| 37 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 refinement | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 feeling | case |
| 39 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 elevation | nmod |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 enable | nsubj |
| 41 | enable | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 enable | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 deal | mark |
| 44 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 enable | xcomp |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 risqué | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 risqué | det |
| 47 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 risqué | compound |
| 48 | risqué | risqué | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 deal | obl |
| 49 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 50 situation | punct |
| 50 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 deal | obl |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 absence | case |
| 52 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 absence | det |
| 53 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 deal | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 coarseness | case |
| 55 | coarseness | coarseness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 absence | nmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 met | punct |
| 57 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 64 met | advmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 unfortunately | punct |
| 59 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 64 met | advmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 met | punct |
| 61 | to | to | PART | _ | 64 met | mark |
| 62 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 64 met | aux:pass |
| 63 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 64 met | advmod |
| 64 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 absence | acl:relcl |
| 65 | with | with | ADP | _ | 69 writer | case |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 writer | case |
| 67 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 69 writer | det |
| 68 | mediæval | mediæval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 writer | amod |
| 69 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 met | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the author | a keen eye | for effect; a talent for description parataxis; a genuine love of Nature and sympathy with author's varying moods parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | the author not said here | wearisome | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | vary | gerund | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | enable | present | a real refinement and elevation of feeling | Nature | which nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | deal | to-infinitive | Nature not said here | situation | with a _ risqué; with a absence of coarseness | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with risqué=Theme | |||
| 6 | not meet | to-infinitive · passive | Nature not said here | with a mediæval writer; always, unfortunately property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: with writer=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | love | Nature | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | elevate | feeling | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | absent | coarseness | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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